Annie Baxter was elected County Clerk of Jasper County, Missouri in 1890. Her electoral opponent, Julius Fischer, contested the election on the grounds that women were not eligible.Baxter, however, remained in the race; the Greene County...
Ella M. Whipple (or M. Ella Whipple), of Clark County, Washington was elected County Superintendent of Schools in 1884. She was elected by a large majority. Whipple was active in many reform movements, temperance and prohibition, suffrag...